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Toolbox Tip for the month:  Here’s another tool that can be used to help your student  Many students have ‘tracking’ issues when reading the words on a bright white background.  The white backgrounds can make the words seem to bounce on the paper.  To help eliminate this problem, give your student different tinted transparencies to put over the page.  Find …

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Writing and Composition Tool

The art of writing enhances your life at many levels. Most teachers agree that writing skills are critical to academic success.  Also, 402 companies who were surveyed (www.enhancemywriting.com/skills) viewed writing skills as crucial to business mastery but were concerned with the steady erosion in the writing skills of their prospective employees. Writing skills have always been important in the workplace, …

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Study Skills

Developing great study skills can be the foundation for good habits for a lifetime. I learned this when working at a community college tutoring center, where I noticed that many students were capable of understanding the material they were given by their teachers, but seemed to fail at the study skill level. So, over the course of several years, I …

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Reading and Comprehension

“Reading is the single most important skill necessary for a happy, productive, and successful life,” according to the National Institute of Health and Human Development.  This is why becoming proficient in reading is crucial. Using a multi-sensory, sturctured language approach helps each student find his or her most efficient way(s) to learn, whether that be through sight, sound, touch, or …

Patty BarnaReading and Comprehension

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Toolbox Tip for the month:  Here’s another tool that can be used to help your student  Many students have ‘tracking’ issues when reading the words on a bright white background.  The white backgrounds can make the words seem to bounce on the paper.  To help eliminate this problem, give your student different tinted transparencies to put over the page.  Find …

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